Word: alastrim
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...vaccination, no fewer than 24 Britons had come down with smallpox by last week. Both patients and health officers were lucky. They had no idea what traveler had carried the disease or where he had come from, but the smallpox proved to be the mild form, variola minor or alastrim. Only ten patients had to be hospitalized; the rest could be treated at home-with, so far, no deaths...
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